Beschrijving
Endless Winter: Paleoamericans
Endless Winter: Paleoamericans takes place in North America, around 10,000 BCE. Players guide the development of their tribes across several generations—from nomadic hunter-gatherers to prosperous tribal societies. Over the course of the game, tribes migrate and settle new lands, establish cultural traditions, hunt paleolithic megafauna, and build everlasting megalithic structures.
Gameplay
Endless Winter is a euro-style game that combines worker placement and deck building in an innovative way. Each round, players send their tribe members to various action spaces, and pay for the actions by playing cards and spending resources. Tribe cards grant additional labor, while Culture cards provide a variety of unique effects. As an alternative, cards can be saved for an end-of-round Eclipse phase, where they are simultaneously revealed to determine the new player order, and trigger various bonus actions.
The game features a novel blend of interwoven systems and mechanisms, such as multi-use cards, area influence, tile placement, and set collection. Plus, there are many viable paths to victory. After four brisk rounds, scores are tallied, and the tribe with the most points wins!
Summarised
Endless Winter: Paleoamericans received a lot of love from the community when it was released. The game brings an interesting mix of mechanisms to the table. Worker placement, deckbuilding, set collection, area control, it’s al there. A lot of times this results in incohesive gameplay and a lacklustre experience. In this case the developers done an excellent job in creating a cohesive gaming experience. Players really have a choice what they want to accomplish within the game. Needless to say this results in a highly replayable game wih a lot of depth and interesting choices to be made.
